1. 

Action for annulment — Natural or legal persons — Measures of direct and individual concern to them — Conditions cumulative in nature — Inadmissibility of the action where just one of those conditions not met

(Art. 263, fourth para., TFEU)

(see paras 35-37)

2. 

Action for annulment — Natural or legal persons — Measures of direct and individual concern to them — Whether directly concerned — Criteria — Commission Decision addressed to a national regulatory authority, requiring it to modify a decision for exemption from the EU rules governing the operation of a pipeline — Discretion of the national regulatory authority responsible for its implementation — Characterisation — Not directly concerned — Inadmissibility

(Art. 263, fourth para., TFEU; European Parliament and Council Directive 2009/73, Art. 36)

(see paras 38, 39, 42-54)

3. 

Fundamental rights — Right to effective judicial protection — Review of legality of EU measures — Procedures — Protection of that right by the EU judicature or by the national courts according to the legal nature of the contested measure — Possibility of using an annulment action or reference for a preliminary ruling on validity

(Arts 19(1) TEU; Arts 263, fourth para., 267 and 277 TFEU; Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, Art. 47)

(see paras 62, 63)

4. 

Judicial proceedings — Objection of inadmissibility — Power of the General Court to rule immediately on the objection of inadmissibility without ruling on the substance — Extent of its discretion

(Rules of Procedure of the General Court, Art. 130)

(see paras 73, 74, 77)

1. 

Dismisses the appeal;

2. 

Orders Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo S.A. to pay its own costs and bear those incurred by the European Commission;

3. 

Orders the Federal Republic of Germany to pay its own costs.